HIST 2112 Lecture 18: 18 - 1960s
Document Summary
Inaccessible healthcare equality and eliminate equality but a large number of blacks were still impoverished/unemployed: main problems that consistently bothered african americans was. Police brutality: watts aggressively arresting a black drunk driver. Confrontation erupts when black citizens see white officers. Rebellion against police brutality and injustice blacks start. Riots took place because blacks were fed up of being pushed protesting and fighting back around. National guardsmen were called in to stop the chaos. In urban, northern cities the seeds of rebellion would radicalize more african americans who rejected integration and non-violence. They became more impatient with johnson administration. By 1968, even after significant legislation had been enacted, little seemed to have changed in america. White americans were tired of civil rights protests, and whites said johnson administration was doing too much for minorities. Black power was a rallying cry for political empowerment of black people political and cultural expression of racial pride &
